Teachers’ health and research: subject or object, seldom as affect

Teachers as Interns in Informal Mathematics Research

This study reports on teacher-interns’ observations of research sessions involving urban students participating as subjects in an informal mathematical learning afterschool program. The research comes from a project that investigates how minority students from low-income, urban community build mathematical ideas and engage in mathematical reasoning. Videotape data from debriefing sessions of th...

Accounting as a subject for LIS research

Object or subject? The paradox of "youth" in Turkey.

A columnist in a Turkish newspaper recently asked : « Will nothing really be the same again ? » [Kaplanoglu, 1999: 6] referring to the impact of the earthquake of August 17, 1999, on the Turkish psyche. The writer Murathan Mungan [1994] used a similar metaphor earlier in what seems today like a prophetic statement : « I think Turkey has really come to lean against the wall. There is nowhere to ...

EFL teachers’ factors and students’ affect

Individual learners’ affective factors are very important for foreign language learning. In China foreign language learning mainly happens in classroom. Foreign language teachers are the organizers and carriers of language classes, and thus they inevitably influence the students’ affection. This study explores how EFL teachers influence students’ affect, what the teachers should do to develop a...

Configuring the patient as clinical research subject in the UK national health service

This paper examines a central image in UK academic clinical research - the patient as altruistic research subject - by means of an interpretive review of social science, bioethical and bioscience research and development policy literatures. The review examines this image as it is indicted in discussions about the nature of clinical science; is consolidated in the ethical regulation of this scie...